What stood out was that Skyes Over London did not treat the automation work like a quick polish job. By the end, the project felt less like a pile of tasks and more like something our team could understand and maintain. That made the business feel easier to present and easier to operate.

The business was running but the overhead was too high for what we were producing. Repetitive tasks were eating time that should have gone toward actual client work.

What we built was conservative by design. The goal was not to automate everything — it was to automate the things that were both repetitive and low-judgment, and leave the rest alone. That distinction mattered.

We have added to the automation since the project ended, using the same principles. The system is built to be extended.